LGA 1156 is the latest Intel platform which announced two months ago.
P55 is the first chipset designed for the new platform; and at this moment, there are three LGA 1156 CPUs in retail,
Core i5-750, i7-860 & i7-870. By following Intel’s marketing segmentation, almost every MB manufacturers launched P55 product for mainstream to mid-high market.

DFI LANParty launched P55 later than other brands; finally, we found DFI P55 in market in the end of October.
Recently, we also heard some news about DFI’s P55 in mini-ITX form factor, maybe DFI want to create a different segment for P55?

The product I review today is DK version, the mid-range product in LANParty series.
The full marketing name is “DFI LANParty DK P55-T3eH9”. (DK P55 for short).

You can find blue & black color on package; DFI adopts this pattern since early 2009.

This is my BIOS setting screen capture.
The potential of OC is depending on CPU quality.
Even you get two or more i5-750 which was produced in the same time, the OC result will be totally different.
So, you have to adjust frequency & voltage carefully to get the best result.

Memory bandwidth of DK P55 is a little bit higher than others. However, the frequency reaches 2100MHz only.
I hope that DFI can break through the bottleneck and release new BIOS for overclocking.
Software bundling is the weakness part in DFI product.
Finally, DFI adds some useful tools for P55 series such as Auto-boost, bclk OC & BIOSecure.

BIOSecure let you recover BIOS when crashing.
Generally, you have to send the board back when BIOS is crashed; with BIOSecure, you can recover it by yourself immediately.

If your board cannot boot anymore, you can user BIOSecure on the other PC or NB as “BIOS programmer”.
Simply “install” the new BIOS via mini USB port, your board with be fully recovered within 1 minute.

DFI will launch mini ITX P55 soon, which named “MI P55-T36”.
I think DFI is trying to leverage the advantage from IPC department in order to find a new way out.
The quality and cooler design is outstanding in DK P55,
if DFI can release new BIOS for better OC, the Price/ Performance ratio would be very attractive.

Here comes my DK P55 ABS file for your reference.
If you have similar hardware with me, maybe you can try my setting.
Wish you will get a nice overclocking!